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Start date:
Instruments operate year-round.
Locations:
Miers Valley
Principle Investigator:
Edward Carpenter
Organisation:
San Francisco State University
State
California
Researchers will study the microbial ecology of the hyporheic (wetted) zone of dry-valley glacial melt-water streams. They will determine how carbon and nitrogen, fixed by cyanobacteria in microbial mats, affect bacterial activity, dissolved organic carbon, and dissolved organic nitrogen in these zones